Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baskets at the Star Market are filled with poinsettas and cookie cutters, tinsel and candy canes. Hershey's Kisses no longer come wrapped only in silver--now they are red and green as well. And even the Massachusetts lottery has a holiday bonus--scratch away the Christmas stockings...
...debate over procedural matters threw the Congress behind schedule, delaying Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov's economic report. That report apparently will be based on a long-term plan developed by his deputy, Leonid Abalkin, that includes making the ruble convertible, selling off unprofitable state enterprises and developing a stock market...
...raiders' troubles have hit Wall Street like a line of falling dominoes. Defaults by overburdened borrowers have crippled the junk-bond market, which finances many takeover deals. Only $11 billion of junk bonds were issued for mergers and acquisitions in the first nine months of 1989, in contrast to $26 billion during the same period a year ago. "Investors are becoming more sophisticated and cynical," says Kingman Penniman, a Vermont-based investment adviser. "They are no longer willing to finance every buyer's fantasy of using somebody else's money to leverage and strip a company and get rich...
Financial woes are not the raiders' only big headache. Their past attacks have led U.S. companies to fortify anti-takeover defenses, making it harder for new raids to succeed. And the long Wall Street bull market has raised stock prices, leaving fewer targets for bargain-hunting buccaneers...
...already established the date and time of the coming coup: Dec. 1 at 3 a.m. But Manila was used to rumors. And since the failure of the last big putsch, in August 1987, most of the talk had led nowhere, good only for a stir in the stock market or titillation among armchair plotters in the capital's gossipy coffee shops. At 10 p.m. on Nov. 30, the speculation was scotched as the government announced the arrest of three members of an elite military division who had attempted to sabotage a provincial communications station south of Manila. For most Filipinos...